admin | August 23, 2010
Crop rotation is a very important part of good farming practices to ensure sustainability. Crop rotation involves alternating the crops grown on the same piece of land. Here at Willowtree Farms, Rod has an intense crop rotation schedule to maintain soil quality, to reduce weeds, and chances of disease in a crop. Crop rotation is [...]
admin | August 23, 2010
This week we headed to Montreal for the North American Strawberries Growers Association summer tour.We spent 2 days touring all different farms, nurseries and markets around the Montreal area. On the tour we stopped at FraiseBec the largest strawberry grower in Canada, growing 58 hectares of strawberries. It was a really interesting place to visit, [...]
admin | August 6, 2010
The fields are buzzing with activity at this time of year. We are picking many of our crops each day. Right now we are picking wagons of sweet corn, bins of broccoli and cauliflower, bushels of cucumbers, beans, peppers, eggplants, and onions and baskets of tomatoes and don’t forget our flats of our ever bearing [...]
